Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-07

the momentum the Church OF God is
under? Why, the smoke OF a-chimney on
the top of Mount Washington when the
wind is blowing sixty miles the hour, is
slow compared with the CELEBRITY Of good
influences. For fifIy-nine centuries the
devil had his own way among the nations.
Nearly all the great missionary move
ments have been started within the CEN
fury, and see what one century has done
to recover the world from tiftynine
centuries of devastation. What great re-
vivals, What mighty churches! What
saved millions, What advancing civil
cation il all the United States, Great
Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy,
full freedom to worship God according
to conscience. Along the coasts OF
China, Japan and Africa the batteries are
planted which are to take all these en-
pires for GCd and civilization. From
the ruins of Babylon and Assyria and
Nineveh and the valleys of the Nile con-
tirmations have been exhumed proving to
all fair minded men that the Bible is the
truest book ever written. The mytholo-
gies of Egypt were found to have embod-
led in them the knowledge of mans ex-
pulsion from Paradise, and the sacrifice
of the creation, corroborated by the ham
mer of Christian biologists; the oldest
profane writers like Hiromus, HelaniCus
and Berosus, confirming the Bible &C
count of ancient longevity; Tacitus and
PliDy confirming the Bible accounts Of
destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah; Tscitus
and Porphyry telling the same story of
Christ as Matthew and Luke told; Mac
robius telling of the massacer of chill
dren in Bethlehem, and Pnlegon sketch
ing the darkness at the crucihxlon. 1t is
demonstrated to all honest men that it is
not SO certain that William
Cullen Bryant wrote Thana-
topsis or Longfellow wrote
Hiawatha as that God by the hard of
prophet and apostle wrote the Bible. All
the Wiz men in science, and law and
medicine. and literature, and merchandise
are gradually coming to believe in
Christianity, and soon there will be no
people who disbeleve in it except those
conspicuous for lack of brain or men
with two families who do not like the
Bible because it rebukes their swinish
propensities.
Tue time is fastening when there will
be no ipfidels left except libertines and
harlots and murderers. Millions of
Christians where once there were thou
sands, and thousands where once there
were hundreds. What bright evening
this, the evening of tue Nineteenth GEN.
turyl and the Twentieth century, which
will dawn in thirteen years from now,
will, in my opinion, bring universal vic
tory for Christ and the church that now
is marching on with step double-quick
or, if you prefer the figure of the text, is
being swept on in the mighty gales of
blessing, imposing and grand and ma
iestic and swift, like pillars of smoke.
Oh, come into the church, through
Christ the door, door more glorious
than th.t of the Temple of Hercules,
which hau two pillars, and one was gold
and the other emerald! Come in teadaY!
Come in and be one CT the eternal Wig
tors! The world you leave4behind lsysa
poor world, and it will burn and passsof
like pillars of smoke. Whether thermal
confederation will start in the coal mines
of Pennsylvania, which, in some places,
have for many years been burning ana
eating into the heart of the mountains;
or whether it shall begin near the Cali
FORMS geysers, or whether from out the
furnaces of COtopoXi and Vesuvius and
StromboH, it shall burst forth upon the
astCnished nations. make no prophecy,
but all biologists tell Us that we
stand on the lid Of world
the heart of which is e raging, roaring,
awful flame, and some day God will let
the red monsters out Of their imprison-
nent of centuries. and New York on fire
in 1885, and Charleston on fire in 1865,
and Chicago on fire in 1872, and Boston
on fire in 1873, were only like one spark
from q blscksmith's forge as compared
with that last universal b!aze which will
be seen in other worlds. But gradually
the flames will lessen and the world will
become great living coal, and that will
take on ashen hue, and then our ruined
planet will begin to smoke, and the
mountains will smoke, and the valleys
will smoke, snd the islands will smoke,
and the seas will smoke, and the cities
will smoke, and the five continents will
be five pillars of smoke. But the black